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Grey On 27 July, George Grey, MRPharmS, of 1 Laurel Close, Burgess Hill,
West Sussex RH15 0UG. Mr Grey registered in 1932.
Limb On 17 July, Joan Limb, MRPharmS, of
13 Avenue Road, Normoss, Blackpool, Lancashire FY3 7SG. Mrs Limb registered in
1939 (see Tribute).
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Tribute
Court In a tribute to the late William
Edward Court (PJ, 7 August, p205),
EDWARD MALLINSON writes:
Bill Court and I started at Bradford University
on the same day, he as reader and head of the department of pharmacognosy
and I as a mere undergraduate. Although our relationship at first was
one of teacher-student, it developed to one of friendship when he became
mentor and supervisor for my final year project studying the alkaloids
of Rauwolfia cuminsii. His passion for pharmacognosy was infective and
my interest in the subject, which still remains after more than 30 years,
is testament to his enthusiasm and ability to impart that to others.
Bill was an active member of the Bradford branch of the Society and we
met regularly at branch meetings. He had been secretary of a previous
branch and was an invaluable
source of advice to someone like me starting out as a branch officer not long
after leaving university. That advice was always freely given and usually accompanied
by some anecdote or other. Even when I moved north in the late 1970s we continued
to keep in touch and usually met either at the branch representatives’ meetings
or at the British Pharmaceutical Conference for the British Society for the History
of Pharmacy session.
In latter years Bill was unable to attend the Conference, but we kept in touch
at Christmas with the usual card and letter. His death marks the end of an era
for me, but I shall always remember the sight of Bill and the late “Tommy” Wallis
(an external examiner at Bradford in the late 1960s and early 1970s) ambling
arm in arm towards the pharmacognosy laboratories. This epitomised the new and
the old in perfect harmony. He will be missed by all who knew and respected him.
My sympathies go to his wife Mai and family.
Limb In a tribute to the late Joan Limb, Joan Alderson
writes:
Joan Limb registered in July 1939 and only came off the Register
in January of this year. After suffering a slight stroke at the age of
82, four years ago, she was reluctantly persuaded to give up her locum
duties but remained active, attending meetings and insisted on driving
herself to St Albans to visit her daughter until just before Christmas,
which was typical of her character.
She was in business with her late husband Maurice in Normoss for many
years. Both were committee members of the Blackpool and Fylde branch
of the Society,
both serving two terms of office as branch chairman. They were on the local
conference committee in 1949 and 1967 when the British Pharmaceutical Conference
was held in Blackpool, and in 1967 Joan was chairman of the ladies conference
committee organising the ladies’ excursions, which were a great feature
in those days. Joan remained on the branch committee until the branch merged
with Preston a few years ago to form the Central Lancashire branch. She was
a founder member of the Blackpool branch of the National Association of Women
Pharmacists in 1953, serving as a committee member and terms of office over
the years.
She had many interests outside pharmacy, being a member of the Mothers’ Union
at St John’s Parish Church in Blackpool and being involved in many parish
activities. She was a Soroptomist, a member of a sewing circle and in 1986
accepted the invitation of the late Lillian Anderson to act as her Mayoress
for the Borough of Wyre.
Joan leaves a son and daughter and five grandchildren and we offer our sympathy
to Michael and Christine in their loss.
She had a great circle of friends and will be sadly missed, especially by our
group of friends in NAWP, the girls she worked with as a locum and by me, a
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